Part 10 - Claudia Becomes A Vampire

INT. INN. SUPPER ROOM.
E: (Lestat Enters) She's here.
L: Your saying
E: You need company, Louie. More conginal then mine. (Lestat holds up a candle and walks towards a large four-poster bed. Claudia lies there, angelic, under the coverlet, two marks on her neck.) Remember how you wanted her, the taste of her.
L: I thought I killed her.
E: Don't worry Louie, your consiouce is clear. (Lestat strokes Claudia's face lightly.)

Lestat stroking Claudia's face lightly.

E: Claudia, Claudie. Yes, listen to me. Your ill my prescious, I'm going to give you what you need to get well.

A mortal Claudia watching Lestat from where she lays against the pillows.

(Louie grabs Lestat's wrist as he is going to cut it, to feed Claudia)
L: No.
E: You want her to die then? (Louie releases Lestat's wrist, Lestat punctures wrists and feeds Claudia. Claudia sucks on the wound, reviving, making little noises.) That's it. Yes. Yes. stop, stop. Enough. (Lestat pulls away gasping)

Claudia gasping for breath on the bed, as her mortal body dies.

(Claudia being transformed. Becoming white yet robust, bright-eyed yet crazed. Her hair becomes beautiful curls, shining in the candlelight. Claudia sits up.)
Claudia's Transformation Image 1..Claudia's Transformation Image 2..Claudia's Transformation Image 3.

The Vampire Claudia..

Claudia (C) : I want some more.

The Vampire Claudia wanting more.

E: Of course you want more.
Maid: Vous m'avez appellez Monsieur? Oh! Quelle belle enfant!
E: (The maid comes near the bed, kneels in front of Claudia. Lestat lays his hand on the maid's throat and Claudia watches keenly. Claudia lunges for the throbbing vein in the neck, locking on to the flowing blood. The Maid is transfixed.)

The new born vampire Claudia drinking from the neck of the Maid.

E: Gently cherrie, your so innocent, you must not be made to suffer. Good, yes, alright now, stop. ah, ahahaha, that's enought cherrie. You must stop before the heart stops.
C: (Claudia looks at the corpse.) I want some more.
E: oh I know, but it's best in the begining, less the death takes you down with it. And you have done very well, not a drop spilled. very good.

Lestat and Claudia look down upon the dead body of the Maid.

C: Where's Mama? (Lestat and Claudia sit on the Louis XVI settee. Claudia is a vision, a doll made out of pearl. Animated, voice crisp. )
E: Mama, mama has gone to heaven, like that sweet lady right there, They all go to heaven.
L: All but us.

Lestat lightly holding Claudia as he talks to her.

E: You want to frighten our little daughter
C: I'm not your daughter.

Lestat and Claudia grinning over to Louis.

E: Oh yes you are, Your mine and Louie's daughter now. You see Louie was going to leave us, was going to go away. but now he's not. Now he is going to stay and make you happy.
C: (Claudia runs over to him. She smiles at him.) Louie...

Louis hugging the new vampire Claudia.

L: (Louis is conflicted. He cannot leave her. He touches her cheeks, her hair. Same as his. Vampire skin and hair. He draws in his breath, shocked by her beauty, then he embraces her as a father might a daughter. He looks over her shoulder to Lestat. ) You fiend.
E: (Lestat smiles ) One happy family.

Lestat grinning at Louis.
 

INT. ROOM. SAN FRANCISCO.
I: (Malloy is open mouthed. ) He did it to make you stay with him.

Louis in modern days standing with his arms crossed.

L: Perhapes. he knew me, he knew I would love her more then the waking world But there was more to it. He lavished affection on her there is no doubt about that perhapes in the end he did it because he was lonly to.